2018 JEEP CHEROKEE Complaints

CAR STALLED AND THE PANEL STATED SHIFT TO PARK ON PANEL AND WOULD NOT CRANK BACK. TRIED MULTIPLE TIMES AND HAD A LONG HARD CRANK AND ENGINE FINALLY CAUGHT UP AND CRANKED. SHIFTED INTO PARK AND WENT ABOUT 1000 - 1500 FEET AND IT DIED AGAIN. WAITED AND TRIED TO CRANK AGAIN AND WENT TO HARD CRANK AGAIN BEFORE STARTING. TOOK TO DEALER AND THEY CLAIMED LOW OIL. THIS IS THE REASON FOR GOING DEAD. STATED I NEEDED OIL CHANGES EVERY 5K AFTER I WAS TOLD INITIALLY 10 K THEN AT 1ST OIL CHANGE TOLD 7500K AND THEN AT THIS PROBLEM THEY STATED NO IT WAS DEFINATELY 5 K. THIS TIME, PANEL LIGHTS UP AND SAYS SERVICE SHIFTER SOON. ALL LIGHTS ON DRIVE SHIFTER LIGHTS UP. NOT JUST ON PARK OR REVERSE OR DRIVE. ALL LIGHTS ILLUMINATED. THEY COME AND GO. I ALSO HAVE SMELLED SOMETHING BURNING THE LAST DAY OR SO AS WELL. COULD NOT CONFIRM YET. I WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH OUT FOR THIS. 1ST DATE 12/4/19 AND SERVICED AT DEALER ON 12/5/19 MILEAGE 31146 AND NOW THIS IS 2/4/20 MILEAGE TODAY IS 34116

MY SERVICE SHIFTER LIGHT COMES ON EVERY 3,000 MILES. TWO MONTHS AGO I WAS APPROACHING A RED LIGHT AND MY SERVICE SHIFTER LIGHT CAME ON AND MY CAR JUST SHUT OFF. MY BABY WAS 5 MONTHS AT THE TIME AND WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF TRAFFIC. I TRIED TO START IT UP BUT HAD NO LUCK FOR 15 MINUTES, IT EVENTUALLY STARTED AND CONTINUED TO STALL ON MY WAY HOME.

THE JEEP COMES WITH THE FEATURE OF WHEN U COME TO A STOP SIGN OR STOP FOR ANY TIME THE MOTOR SHUTS OFF AND RESUMES WHEN THE GAS PEDAL IS PRESSED. MY WIFE VEHICLE'S HAD A EXCLAMATION POINT LIGHT COME ON SO SHE TOOK IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND THEY PUT IT ON A COMPUTER AND FOUND NOTHING WRONG. THAT'S SAME VERY NIGHT SHE WAS DRIVING AND SUDDENLY HER MOTOR JUST SHUTS OFF AL.OST CAUSING A ACCIDENT. SHE HAD TO PULL OFF THE ROAD AND AFTER MULTIPLE TRIES OF TURNING THE KEY ON AND OFF IT FINALLY RESTARTED

HAVE HAD SEVERAL ISSUES WITH THIS CHEROKEE, MY OIL PRESSURE LIGHT WOULD COME ON WHEN I WOULD TAKE SUDDEN TURN, I TOOK IT IN TO MY LOCAL DEALER AND THEY STATED TO START AN OIL CONSUMPTION TEST, IT APPEARS THE MOTOR EQUIPPED IN THE CHEROKEE WAS BURNING OIL AND THEY COULDN'T DETERMINE WHERE THE OIL WAS GOING, ALSO DURING THIS TIME, MY 'SERVICE SHIFTER' LIGHT CAME ON MY DASH AND ALL OF THE SHIFTER LIGHTS WOULD COME ON AT THE SAME TIME, THIS WOULD HAPPEN PERIODICALLY, THEY DECIDED THEY NEEDED TO REPLACE MOTOR DUE TO THE OIL ISSUE, I ASKED ABOUT THE SERVICE SHIFTER ISSUE, THEY STATED THAT THEY COULD NOT FIND ANY FAULTS WITH THE SERVICE SHIFTER, SURE ENOUGH 3 WEEKS LATER MY SERVICE SHIFTER LIGHT CAME ON AGAIN AND WOULDN'T GO OFF, I WAS UNABLE TO TELL WHICH GEAR I WAS IN BECAUSE OF THIS BECAUSE OF ALL OF THE GEAR LIGHTS WERE ON SIMULTANEOUSLY, NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE DEALER DOES NOT HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THIS ISSUE, I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THIS ISSUE BE DOCUMENTED AND REPAIRED OR RECALLED.

CAR STALLS WHILE DRIVING. WHEN LETTING OFF THE ACCELERATOR, THE CAR WILL MAKE A BEEPING SOUND AND CAR DIES. IT TAKES A COUPLE TRIES TO GET THE CAR RESTARTED. THIS ONLY HAPPENS WHILE CAR IS COLD. ONCE IT IS RUNNING FOR A WHILE IT DOESN'T SEEM TO DIE. SEEMS RELATED TO THE COMPLAINTS OF RECALL U87.

2018 JEEP CHEROKEE STALLED WHILE DRIVING, IN MOTION ON STATE HIGHWAY, OIL LIGHT CAME ON SIMULTANEOUSLY, CAUSING POWER STEERING TO FAIL, FINALLY AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS MOTOR RESTARTED BUT AUTO WOULD NOT ENGAGE DRIVE, HAD TO TURN OFF ENGINE AND RESTART X3,, THIS HAS HAPPENED 3 TIME TODAY 1/24/2020

RECENTLY MY SON WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT DIFFICULTY BUCKLING HIS SEAT BELT. UPON INSPECTION, I NOTICED THAT HIS SEAT BELT WAS FRAYED IN SEVERAL PLACES. IT IS NOW FRAYED HALF WAY THROUGH THE WIDTH. I THOUGHT MAYBE HE WAS BEING TO ROUGH WITH THE SEATBELT, UNTIL I NOTICED MY OLDER SONS SEATBELT WAS DOING THE SAME THING. TO AVOID USING THE SEATBELTS FURTHER, I HAVE HAD TO MOVE MY YOUNGEST SON TO THE MIDDLE AND MY OLDEST TO THE FRONT PASSENGER.*DT CONSUMER STATED SHE WAS NOT SURE IF THERE WAS DAMAGE TO THE WIRING.*JB

WHILE IN MOTION, ALL THE INDICATOR LIGHTS FOR MY SHIFTER TURNED ON AND SERVICE SHIFTER WARNING WAS ILLUMINATED ON MY CLUSTER. ONCE I STOPPED AND TURNED OFF THE VEHICLE, THE CONDITION CLEARED AND WENT AWAY. THIS HAS OCCURRED TO ME ABOUT 6 TO 8 TIMES IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS OR SO, SOME HAVE BEEN WHILE DRIVING, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER THE TYPE OF ROAD I HAVE BEEN ON WHEN IT HAPPENS, AND SOME HAVE BEEN WHEN I START THE VEHICLE AND IT IMMEDIATELY SHOWS UP. THE DEALERSHIP I TOOK MY VEHICLE IN TO GET THE PROBLEM DIAGNOSED, WHICH IS WEST HILLS CHRYSLER JEEP DODGE RAM, IN BREMERTON WASHINGTON, MENTIONED AFTER I ASKED IF THIS WAS A COMMON THING THAT THEY WERE DOING ABOUT A REPAIR A WEEK FOR THIS ISSUE.

TURNED ON THE VEHICLE AND IMMEDIATELY ALL THE RED LIGHTS WERE LIT UP ON THE GEAR SHIFTER. IT SAID SERVICE SHIFTER AND WOULD NOT MOVE TO A DIFFERENT SCREEN. CONCERNED ABOUT THIS I GOOGLED IT, AND FOLLOWED INSTRUCTIONS TO RESET. I TURNED THE CAR OFF AND WAITED 30 SECONDS, TURNED IT BACK ON, NOTHING SO I DROVE AWAY. 10 MILES LATER THE CAR DINGS, SERVICE SHIFTER, AND THE SHIFT LIGHTS WERE ALL LIT UP AGAIN. I PARKED, TURNED THE CAR AND FOLLOWED THE SAME PROCEDURE. WITHIN 6 MILES IT DID IT AGAIN. THIS SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH JEEP CHEROKEE'S AND IT IS NOT JUST THE 2018 MODEL YEARS, IT SEEMS TO BE SO COMMON THAT JEEP PERFORMED A RECALL ON OTHER CHEROKEE YEARS.

I WAS DRIVING THE VEHICLE AT 32,128 MILES AND GOT A SERVICE MESSAGE THAT SAID 'SERVICE SHIFTER'. I CONTACTED MY DEALERSHIP AND THEY SAID IT IS AN ISSUE THEY'VE SEEN BEFORE. I WAS ON A CITY STREET, I GOT TO A PARKING LOT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. CALLED THE DEALERSHIP BEFORE SHIFTING TO PARK, OR TURNING THE CAR OFF. THEY INFORMED ME THAT BY TURNING THE CAR OFF, THE LIGHT SHOULD DISAPPEAR WHEN I TURNED IT BACK ON. WHEN I TURNED MY CAR ON AFTER TURNING IT ON, THE LIGHT WAS GONE.